Cheese on a raw food diet

A common complaint among cheese lovers

A fellow ‘raw rocker’ emailed me the other day and said that she is worried she’ll miss cheese on a raw food diet.

Boy can I relate!

I used to love big hunks of dairy cheese, but my waistline didn’t.

Dairy is notoriously heavy to digest for a lot of people, and many are allergic to dairy without knowing it. (Plus it’s not nice for the cows, as any vegan will tell you).

So what do you eat when you want to stop the dairy but still have cheese?

Option one: store ‘cheese substitutes’

I have vegan friends who buy those packets of ‘vegan cheese’ that you can get in many supermarkets.

They contain some good things like nutritional yeast and nuts, but they often also contain soy protein, solidified vegetable oil, tapioca flour, vegetable glycerin and a number of dyes to make the cheese look orange or whatever color they’re after.